Job Description
Job Description
Temporary Assignment Description/Contract to hire possible for the right person.
The Medical Record Clerk compiles, verifies, and files medical records of hospital or clinic patients and compiles statistics for use in reports and surveys, prepares folders and maintains records of newly admitted patients.
Reviews contents of patients' medical record folders, assembles into standard order, and files according to established procedure, reviews inpatient and emergency room records to insure presence of required reports and physicians' signatures, and routes incomplete records to appropriate personnel for completion or prepares reports of incomplete records to notify administration, checks list of discharged patients to insure receipt of all current records, compiles daily and periodic statistical data, such as admissions, discharges, deaths, births, and types of treatment rendered.
This technician will also record diagnoses and treatments, including operations performed, for use in completing hospital insurance billing forms maintain death log, type and process birth certificates, assist other workers with coding of records, make copies of medical records, using duplicating equipment, and may schedule and post results of laboratory tests to records.